“The David Goldstein Show” tonight on Newsradio 710-KIRO

It’s politics as unusual again tonight on “The David Goldstein Show” from 7PM to 10PM on Newsradio 710-KIRO. I like to go with the flow, so things could change, but here’s what I have lined up for tonight’s show:

7PM:What’s happening in the other Washington? Ken Vogel, formerly of the TNT and now an investigative reporter The Politicogives us an update from our nation’s capital. What’s the latest scandal? Is Obama for real? Will Republicans ever allow a vote on a resolution opposing escalating the war in Iraq? Ken will fill us in on all the latest news, rumor and gossip.

8PM:Obligatory Viaduct Hour!!! If this is a political talk show in Seattle, then we must be discussing the fate of the Alaska Way Viaduct. Former Gov. Gary Locke joins me to tell us where he stands on (or under) the Viaduct replacement controversy, and share is vision for Seattle and the downtown waterfront. Will Gov. Locke be in lockstep with Gov. Gregoire? Tune in to find out.

9PM:TBA (I’m gonna rant about stuff.)

Tune in tonight (or listen to the live stream) and give me a call: 1-877-710-KIRO (5476).

Goldy, sometimes you just rant. I mean it! The fact we can’t solve Seattle’s traffic congestion by building a five-lane viaduct is not a reason to make it worse by eliminating the three lanes we have.

Here’s a suggestion for ya. Just move the damn thing uphill a few blocks. If you rebuild the viaduct above, say, Fourth or Fifth Avenue it won’t be a visual blight (it’ll be buried in the concrete canyon that’s already there) AND it’ll be on more stable soil.

I agree with your caller, Eli, who suggested that WSDOT shut down Highway 99 for a week before anyone goes ahead with an elimination option. And no, there isn’t space for a 6-lane boulevard under the AWV; that’s why it was built as a double-decker.

Goldy, I heard you ranting about the Viaduct on your show. Frankly, I don’t understand how building a viaduct, a tunnel, or even a surface street will reduce global warming. Traffic (and therefore idling) will occur on all three options. I’m just surprised that you think the surface street is the best option. It will cause more traffic jams as more people are pushed onto other roads causing more traffic backups, and more pollution.

And if you want to include more public transportation, I think the tunnel or viaduct rebuild are the two best options that could allow for modification to include light rail.

Personally, I am all for the viaduct rebuild. Everytime I drive north on 99, I am afforded great views downtown Seattle. Its makes me interested in exploring the downtown more, when I see something from the viaduct I could never see from the ground level. I would expect tourists (with money to spend) would feel the same way.

On I-5, once you get to the downtown area, you can’t see anything worth sh*t.

Gary Locke says a tunnel won’t require tax increases. Where will the $500 million to relocate city utilities come from? If ratepayers have to absord that in rate increases, the effect on our wallets is exactly the same as a tax increase. In which case, this argument is semantics.

– “Cheney himself told [Libby] Plame worked at CIA a month before the talk with Russert, but Libby says he forgot that in the crush of business.

– “Cheney told Libby to speak with selected reporters to counter bad news. He developed talking points on the matter for the White House press office. He helped draft a statement by then-CIA Director George Tenet. He moved to declassify some intelligence material to bolster the case against Wilson.”

– “Cheney ordered Libby to leak part of a classified intelligence report.”

– “Cheney was … a deputy president with a shadow operation. He had his own source of advice. He had his own source of access. He was making his own decisions.”

– “Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer … was surprised to find the administration was backing off the 16 words … it wasn’t the first time he spoke of the administration’s position with great certainty, only to find it had changed and nobody had bothered to let him know.”

“Libby had conversations about Plame’s identity with Cheney as well as with a Cheney spokeswoman, a undersecretary of state and two CIA officials before he talked to Russert.”

– “Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller and former Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper testified that Libby discussed Plame’s CIA employment with them.

– “Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the first to disclose Plame’s work to reporters. Ultimately, he, Fleischer and special presidential adviser Karl Rove all have acknowledged talking to reporters about her.

– “At least six reporters were privately told by top administration officials of Plame’s connection with the CIA.”

“‘What was interesting to me was what appears to be the total involvement of the vice president,’ said Stephen Hess, a presidential scholar who worked in the Eisenhower and Nixon White Houses. ‘If he’s down to micromanaging news leaks and responses at that level, I found that quite astounding.'”

RatherRetarded. . .you are so out of touch. The wingers and their brainstorm of an election challenge in 2004 brought me to HA and made me much more politically active. I don’t believe I would’ve listened to a group called ‘The Dixie Chicks’ except for the Faux Noise Channel ill-advised attempts at censorship and suppression. Seems about 73 out of a hundred agree with me, and think “The Chicks” are pretty good and the chimpster is an embarrassment.

Yeah they’re so big they are packing arena all over the country ….NOT. I saw this one shot of the crowd when they were playing in Florida and there were more empty seats then people. It made me proud to be an American.

@11 The DIXIE CHICKS won FIVE GRAMMYS!!! Hey all you rightwing HATERS — this is what REPUDIATION looks like on NATIONAL TV. Did you pigfuckers notice how loud the audience clapped and cheered every time the DIXIE CHICKS won another GRAMMY? I did. Repudiation, baby, REPUDIATION!!!

Liberals love the Dixie Chicks. What do real Americans think of the Dixie Chicks:

USA Today June 6, 2006

Buying a Dixie Chicks CD, that’s one thing. Buying a concert ticket, that’s another matter — at least in some places. While the Dixie Chicks roost atop the album-sales charts for a second week, plans for the trio’s North American Accidents & Accusations Tour, set to begin July 21 in Detroit, suddenly are up in the air. “There is a reshuffling of the tour based on market sales,” spokeswoman Kathy Best says.

Shows announced for St. Louis, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis and Memphis have been pulled from the schedule. The public on-sale date for a September show in Houston has been canceled as well.

Several concerts on the Dixie Chicks’ “Accidents & Accusations” tour have been canceled after slow ticket sales, but the group says it has replaced them with other dates.

Kansas City, Houston, St. Louis, Memphis and Knoxville are among 14 cities no longer on the original schedule released in May, according to a revised itinerary posted Thursday on the Dixie Chick’s Web site.

Other shows, including Nashville, Los Angeles, Denver and Phoenix, have been pushed back to later dates.

The North American leg of the tour kicked off July 21 in Detroit. Billboard magazine and other trade publications have reported lackluster sales in some markets, particularly in the South and Midwest.

The Dixie Chicks, after their injuries sustained when falling off the huge piles of money thrown at them by angry rednecked blooded Amurikuns are devestated by the fact that they are no longer welcome in Knoxville and Fresno and will simply have to settle for such out-of-the-way venues as London, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles and similar small towns all over the world.

@24 “Dan Rather says: Dixie Chicks- Show cancelled That would be a good back drop to the American flag.” 02/11/2007 at 10:33 pm

Here’s your answer: “Despite minimal airplay, Taking the Long Way debuted at number one on both the U.S. pop albums chart and the U.S. country albums chart, selling 526,000 copies in the first week (the year’s second-best such total for any country act) and making it a gold record within its first week. The Chicks became the first female group in chart history to have three albums debut at #1.”

@24 “Dan Rather says: Dixie Chicks- Show cancelled That would be a good back drop to the American flag.” 02/11/2007 at 10:33 pm

Oh, and one more thing Dan — keep your filthy paws off our American Flag! We’re not letting you fascists use it as a prop for your hatemongering anymore. We’ve taken it back, and it belongs to America and Americans again — no nazis alllowed.

Should they forget and forgive? Hell no! Neither should we. The Dixie Chicks got 5 (count ’em, FIVE) Grammys tonight — shove that up your nazi asses! Dixie Chick CDS are selling like hotcakes and these girls are beloved all over the world, except in Texas trailer parks. Suck on it, wingers.

Goldy … Locke was a great guest. He made up mym mind to vote against a rebuild. Essentially, what Mr. Locke is saying is that the viaduct makes no sense. The commercial traffic is small and can be handled by either the surface or tunnel options. All the rebuild does is serve the states need to handle a few % of the traffic on aurora that actually goes through Seattle but at a high cost in lost business to Seattle. Makes no sense.

One thing he said, confused me. The LID? He suggests a much larger LID then I have heard about. Locke claimed the hybrid tunnel can be built with no taxes paid by Seattle from the property tax. That would be great, but is it true? If so, why can’t the LID be large enough to cover Allentown? The surface or hybrod options should greatly improve the access to SLU and therefore generat5e $$$ for Vulcan. Seems as if ti would be reasonable for Paul Allen to bear some of the cost?

If you’re going to appropriate another’s blog post title as part of your ‘handle,’ out of common courtesy – if nothing else – you might give credit where credit is due and inform Jenn of the Jungle of your action.

In any case an awful lot of people want to overlook the inconvenient truth that the Viaduct can be Repaired.

I was about to settle down to “The David Goldstein Show” on Newsradio 710-KIRO when I heard the host start the discussion of the Viaduct with something like “And we all know that the Viaduct must be Replaced…”

I turned off the radio. I don’t have the patience to litsen to conversation aimed at demolition and which plays games with the facts to achieve that goal. The claim that the Viaduct must be replaced is a convenient lie foisted on the public. The inconvenient truth for supporters of both the Tunnel and the Surface options is that the Viaduct could be Repaired (or that their are other options such as a cable-stayed bridge.)

Goldy’s parroting of this fiction reminded me of the blinders with which supporters of the Iraq War (in 2002-3) refused to consder any option besides war (such as vastly increased inspections; think about that one for a moment.) Bush’s supporters wanted War; the supporters of the Surface option want Demolition. They start with a legitimate goal in mind — respectively, improving the world by stopping a tyrant’s control of WMDs or improving Seattle’s waterfront — but they contort reality and the facts to achieve their goal. In fact the Viaduct can be Repaired (and such Repair btw is the only route to serious considerion of the Surface option. The Surface option can only be achieved by Repairing it first.)

Garbage In, Garbage Out. That’s the political process in Seattle and Goldy is taking part. Now I don’t know if Goldy truely believes that the Viaduct must be Replaced because it cannot be Repaired, or whether he is conscious of the choice of Repair but chooses to overlook it. I prefer the former as he seems like a nice-enough guy with good intentions. But the result is the same — a public process aimed at a public work based on bad information and pre-conceived results. If Democrats can’t do better than that…

had you EVER actually read AND comprehended anything, you would have noticed that I have credited Jenn every single time I\’ve used her stuff. The fact that you are too high/stupid/attention deficit disordered/lazy to have noticed is YOUR problem… not mine and not Jenn\’s.

Screw you and go get some meds for your jerking knees… or would that be the wobbly knees of a liberal coward?

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